From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:49:22 GMT
Subject: Re: gitdiffbinstat - git diff --shortstat -like output for changes in binary files
Message-ID: <20130329184922.GB13506@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <5155D864.8040007@famsik.de>

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 07:07:32PM +0100, Matthias Krüger wrote:

> I use git mostly for game-development which means I have to deal with
> a lot of binary files (images, sound files etc).
> 
> When I came to a point where I had run image optimization on a
> branch, I wanted to know of course how much smaller the new branch
> was in comparison to master.
> Problem was that 'git diff --stat' would only summerize
> per-binary-file size changes and 'git diff --shortstat' did skip the
> binary files entirely.

Have you tried "--summary"? Combined with --stat (or --shortstat) I
wonder if it would get you closer to what you want.

-Peff